Carlsbad Irrigation District, Main Canal, 4 miles North to 12 miles Southeast of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM

Significance: The Carlsbad Irrigation District is nationally significant as an excellent surviving representation of a large turn-of-the-century reclamation system. The District includes significant engineering features constructed by nineteenth-century private entrepreneurs as well as early twentieth-century features constructed by the United States Reclamation Service. Many of the features were technologically innovative for their day.

Survey number: HAER NM-4-C

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000476

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1969 - 1980

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